Vocabulary
A story written in the form of a play
A play or film that tells a humorous story
A play or film in which characters struggle to overcome hardships but do not succeed
Drama
Comedy
Tragedy
King of the gods
Goddess of wisdom (Athens is named after her)
God of war
Zeus
Athena
Ares
Created a new way of questioning called the Socratic Method. He was arrested for urging young people to rebel against the government. A jury found him guilty and sentenced to death.
Socrates
Claimed that the sun was that the center of the universe. He said that Earth circled the sun.
Aristarchus
The most famous oracle was?
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi
A story to teach a lesson with animals
Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony
The custom of passing along stories by speech
Fable
Ritual
Oral tradition
Queen of the gods and Goddess of marriage
God of the underworld
Hera
Hades
He was one of Socrates' students. He founded a school in Athens called the Academy. Unlike Socrates, he recorded his ideas in writing and wrote The Republic, which presented his plan for an ideal society and government. He believed that philosopher kings should rule.
Plato
Taught others his theories about geometry. In his book Elements, he describes plane geometry.
Euclid
Who created the Iliad and The Odyssey?
Homer
A philosophical method of questioning to gain truth
The philosophy of Epicurus, stating that the purpose of life is to look for happiness and peace
The philosophy of the Stoics, who believed that people should not try to feel joy or sadness
Socratic Method
Epicureanism
Stoicism
God of the seas
Goddess of the home
Poseidon
Hestia
A student of Plato. Started a school called the lyceum. Taught his students the "golden mean". The mean is the middle position between two extremes. The idea of the golden mean is that people should live moderately. Tutored Alexander the Great.
Aristole
He was the chief librarian at the library at Alexandria. He concluded that the Earth was round, and then used his knowledge to measure Earth's circumference.
Eratosthenes
What was the Iliad about?
The Trojan War
A traditional story about gods and heroes; they expressed the religious beliefs of the ancient Greeks
A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god
The art of public speaking and debate
Myth
Oracle
Rhetoric
Goddess of the hunt and wild animals
God of light and prophecy
Artemis
Apollo
Taught his students that finding happiness was the goal of life. He believed that to be happy was to avoid pain.
Epicurus
Known as the "father of medicine". First to write a medical code of good behavior.
Hippocrates
What was the Odyssey about?
Odysseus and his long trip home after the fall of Troy.
A list of rules that says doctors should do their best to help their patients
Part of an army in which soldiers ride horses
The time period following the death of Alexander the Great, during which Greek culture spread thought the known world
Calvary
Hellenistic Era
Messenger of the gods
Goddess of love and beauty
Hermes
Aphrodite
What does philosophy mean?
Love and wisdom
Worked on solid geometry. Figured out the value of PI. Was also an inventor who developed machinery and weapons of war and explained the lever and pulley
Archimedes
Alexander the Great was how old when he became the ruler of Macedonia and Greece? He also conquered Persia, Syria, Egypt, and Northwestern India.